iam now preparing to leave for iraq again day after tomorrow (one week in Basra).

2018-01-07 | Leaving a busy 2017 behind

What a Year I was so busy i could not manage to update let alone extend the website in the way i would have wished.

I have been on fieldwork In Sudan and Qatar as well as some office days in Qatar

in Spring i also had a nice non archaeology fieldwork job in central Germany.

In April i co hosted a panel on Drone work in Archaeology at a conference in Newcastle where i gave a presentation as well.

in May and June I had to stop working since i had to finish our house with laying floors, wallpaper and painting as well as lots of electrical work.

Moving to our new House in Bremen Nord in June.

In July i also had to move my office since my rent was cancelled since the building was to be sold and demolished. The office is now at the top floor of my new House.

August: Fieldwork in the Bavarian Alps again and then straight from Munich to Pomeiopolis a site Roman site in northern Turkey where i spend a month as field director training students how to excavate and document and of course surveying.

September was spend with two deployments on the training dig of the university of Munich in Bavaria. In between these i spend two weeks in Qantir Egypt surveying and doing photogrammetry.

October it was back to Egypt for the last to weeks of the excavation in Qantir.

November was spend for two weeks setting up my new office and building furniture to store all my equipment. Towards the end of the month i flew to Sudan again for survey and photogrammetry work in Meroe.

In December i returned to do some more work on and in my new Office. Since there is lot of post processing to be done of this years fieldwork i could not manage to update the website...

2016-11-17 | Back and leaving againThe three projects which filled my schedule to the utmost in the last months were finished successfully.

Now after 3 weeks back in Bremen and doing post processing i will head out to Sudan once more on Monday morning. more

2016-09-21 | Added blog to websiteIn order not to overload the News section i created a blog sub site to make some room for up to date reports from the field. There you can find field reports photos and videos to allow you to follow my work more closely. You can open the blog by using the menu on top of the page or the forward button in the top right. Or just click here.

2016-09-20 | Away for a while In the next 5 weeks i will be away on 3 different projects as well as on Holiday.1. Egypt2. Holiday at the North Sea3. Iraq4. RomaniaSo i hope that you can reach me by E-mail if needed.

2016-09-19 | Alps again!Last week i worked in high terrain again. Doing GNSS and Total Station Survey between 1700 and 2280m above MSL. Harsh conditions and extremely difficult logistics, but a nice view.

360° view from the Gumpenspitze in the Karwendel nature reserve park. Click on the image to download full size Panorama (about 50mb).

2016-09-15 | Some real work...Enough desk work, now its time to do something practical.After setting up a image downlink for one of my planes it is now time to reconfigure the remote controlled camera kite rig for upcoming work in Austria next week.

2016-08-15 | Visitor and working on new PublicationA busy week completed; Dr. Chris Carey spend the last week here at my office and we worked together on the next publication on ironproduction in Meroe.

Now it is back to other work like finishing the post processing work for Qantir (Egypt) project.

The schedule for autumn is almost full now and lots of exiting new projects are coming up.

2016-08-06 | Alps excavationLast week I spend on a excavation in the Bavarian Alps. One small trench about 1200m above MSL. We had some great finds and a good workout program climbing uphill for 1.5h every morning. First day we had to bring our equipment up there using mules provided by the German army. That’s one thing you don’t see every day, total station carrying mules.

2016-06-28 | Training in Munich completed I was teaching a three weekend photogrammetry course at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich since March. This was successfully completed last Saturday. We did lots of theory but also hands on training using conventional and modern photogrammetry techniques.

2016-05-02 | New EquipmentTo get nice images of my equipment and for finds photography i recently upgraded my photo equipment. I added remote control terminal for my flashlight collection as well as a simple studio set up including backgrounds and lights.

2016-04-28 | Back from the UKThe conference in Leicester was great and I had the chance to meet some very interesting colleagues and learn a lot. Now back to office work including this site.

2016-04-19 | UPCOMING EVENTThis Friday 22th of April I will speak at the CIfA 2016 annual conference in Leicester (UK).The title of the presentation is "Utilizing UAVs for large area mapping projects. Applications for archaeological documentation from site to landscape scale"

2016-04-18 | Website re-launchFinally after a long time and by utilizing new web design technology I am now able to completely re-launch the website. The new page will come online in pieces as I add content. It will feature more digital content such as pictures videos and animations.

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